Music-turner.



PATENTED APR. 17, 1906.

G. CHRISTIANSEN, F. P. NOLL & E. L. BUCHANAN. MUSIC TURNER.

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CHARLES OHRISTIANSEN, FRANK F. NOLL, AND ERNEST L. BUCHANAN, OF GRAND RAPlDS, MICHIGAN.

MUSIC-TURNER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

To all 1072,0171, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES CHRISTIAN- SEN, FRANK F. NoLL, and ERNEST L. BUCH- ANAN, citizens of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Music-Turners, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in music-turners for use upon single leaves of music; and its objects are, first, to provide a cheap effective music-turner that may be readily manipulated, and, second, to provide a music-turner with which a sheet of music may be readily engaged and which may be instantly transferred without the trouble of adjusting the several sheets of music to connected arms of a compound music-turner. We attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan of the blank from which the body of the turner is made. Fig. 2 is a Fig. 3 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 4 shows the turner attached to the edge of a sheet of paper or music; and Fig. 5 is a sectional edge view of the turner, cut on the line X X of Fig. 1, showing the form of the spring-Wire that clamps the paper.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the construction of this music-turner we form a blank of thin sheet metal having a body a of any desired form, with a wing 01 on either edge, this wing being designed to fold around the ends of the wire f, as indicated in Fig. 2, so that the body f of the wire will be held firmly against the surface of the body a, so that any sheet of music or leaf of paper, as c, that may be placed between them will hold the turner so that the sheet may be turned without any danger of pulling the turner off of the sheet. For the purpose of easily manipulating the turner we form a handpiece 6, which should bow outward, as in Figs. 2 and 4, so it can be easily taken hold of with the hand to draw or turn the sheet at the proper time, and thus avert the inconvenience and loss of time incident upon the attempt to take hold of the plain music-sheet and breaking into and marring the time and sometimes, in complicated music, greatly inconveniencing the operators.

We prefer that the ends f of the wire f be bent outward, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 5, so that the sheet may be easily inserted.

To secure the wire firmly to place, we fold the wings d snugly around the ends at the back of the body a and form notches c in the edges of the sheet metal between the body and the handpiece and pass the bend of the Wire through these notches, so that it cannot be made to slide toward the handpiece when inserting the edge of a sheet of music.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent ofthe United States, is-

1. In a music-turner, a sheet-metal body, a wing projecting from each side of the body and arranged to infold the ends of a wireholder, a curved handpiece projecting from one end-of the body with a notch at each side between the body and the handpiece, a wire holder bent to form a fold of U form and each arm of said fold bent so that the fold and the ends of the arms will press upon opposite sides of the body, the ends of the arms infolded by the wings on the body so that the bends in the arms engage the notches in the body and the bow is made to press solidly against the opposite side of the body, the end of the bow being slightly curved out from the body.

2. In a music-turner, a sheet-metal back, a handpiece integral therewith with a notch at each edge between the handpiece and the .body, a spring-wire folded so the body and ends are parallel and passed through the notches to hold the body of the wire snugly against the other surface of the sheet-metal body, wings at each edge of the body folded around the ends of the wire to hold it firmly to place, and the wire bent up near the point of contact with the metal body, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

CHARLES CHRISTIANSEN. FRANK F. NOLL. ERNEST L. BUCHANAN. In presence of ITHIEL J. CILLEY, A. ALLGIER. 

